Monthly Commons digest
January 2025: the Commons month in review
Ayes and Noes · compiled from official UK Parliament data
Published 31 January 2025 2 min read
January 2025 opened the new year with 22 divisions across six sitting days — nine carried and thirteen rejected — and roughly 10,300 votes cast.
Education was the most frequently divided-on topic. Party discipline was tight: only five votes were recorded against a party majority all month.
22
Divisions
9
Passed
13
Rejected
10,284
Votes cast
Activity through the month
Recorded divisions per sitting day (hover a bar for the date).
Bars show sitting days on which the Commons divided; the axis numbers are divisions held.
Notable divisions
What was debated
Topics by number of divisions tagged (locally derived).
Rebellions
5 votes were cast against an MP's own party majority this month.
Largest rebellion — 2 MPs voted against their party majority
Women’s State Pension age (Ombudsman report and compensation scheme): Ten Minute Rule Motion
28 Jan 2025
Most active MPs
By recorded votes cast this month (a participation measure, not a judgement of effectiveness). Party shown as at the time.
Early Day Motions
138 new Early Day Motions were tabled this month.
Most signed — 98 signatures
Snares
EDM 705 · tabled by Ruth Jones